Share MEXICO CITY (Ricardo Homs/El Universal) – Massimo Modonesi is an Italian academic who has lived in Mexico for more than 20 years. He presides over an association dedicated to promoting the Marxist thesis of Antonio Gramsci, an essential academic reference of communist thought in the first half of the 20th century. Modonesi is a historian and sociologist, professor of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM. Modonesi’s ideological activity within the academic context would have nothing unusual in a country like Mexico, open to the world, living in a democratic model, except for its level of influence in the current circle of power.